Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 21.9 .2010

SVA at checks did not let 11.5 tonnes of meat and eggs on market

The State Veterinary Administration (SVA) at extraordinary inspections during September did not let 11.5 tonnes of meat and other foods of animal origin on the market. The reason for returning of deliveries was for example a damaged packing or bad storage. As a whole, SVA in 144 checks examined 530 tonnes of food. It announced it to ČTK in a press release on Monday. From foods which it did not let on the market, there was roughly 8.5 tonnes of poultry meat. Of it in four cases it was seven tones in total of poultry meat from Poland. One case was four tones of pig meat from Germany and in four cases the veterinarians excluded 500 kg of poultry meat and eggs from the CR.

Topic direction of agricultural policy dominates to informal meeting of chiefs of agricultural EU departments

Belgian town La Hulpe hosts an informal meeting of ministers of the Council for Agriculture and Fishery on the 19th to 21st of September. In frame of the plenary meeting but also during events organized during the meeting, a carrying topic is the future form of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2013. The informal meeting of the Council for Agriculture and Fishery is one of the last opportunities when ministers will try to influence eagerly expected proposals of the future form of the Common Agricultural Policy which should be put forward by the European Commission. The Commissioner for Agriculture Dacian Cioloş plans to introduce the proposals in the European Parliament on the 17th of November.

Cereal chamber of Europe

Russia is on the best way to become again a large world exporter. Agriculture gained a strategic importance in the last period. The government wants to increase the self-sufficiency rate in cereals production and at the same time also the export. Large subsidies in agriculture, above all in form of programmes for cheapening of credits, significantly support investment activity. Even despite the economic crisis and dramatic drought, which affected some states of the Russian federation this year, this development has not stopped. Still in 90´s of the last century, Russia had to import cereals from the USA.

We check conditions of trading

Foods of animal origin have to be not only correctly produced but also right packed, transported and marked. Since the beginning of September, an extraordinary veterinary inspection focused on trading with food of animal origin takes place on the entire CR territory and concerns also trading with poultry meat. The extraordinary check were participated also by experts from the State Veterinary Administration from the department of veterinary hygiene and public health. In total, 144 checks have been carried out till this time.